Dr. Karen Ross: Are you sure there aren't some kind of gorillas that kill. Dr. Peter Elliot: Please, Dr. Ross. What's your area of expertise? Folk-singing? Dr. Karen Ross: [smugly] Communications technology. Dr. Peter Elliot: So you're a geek with a cellular phone. Dr. Karen Ross: I'm a scientist. But you and your protege, as far as I can see, belong in the circus. [looks at Amy eating flowers]

Monroe: And this is your cover? Dr. Karen Ross: Yes Dr. Peter Elliot: I'm nobody's cover. Cover for what? Monroe: ...find yourself in the middle of something. Dr. Peter Elliot: Cover for what? Monroe: I don't know and she won't tell you. But the kind of money her company's throwing around... they don't spend that on any gorilla. Relax. You're in better hands than you *should* be.

Dr. Peter Elliot: [as everyone on the plane prepares to jump] Why are they putting on parachutes? Dr. Karen Ross: Figure it out! Dr. Peter Elliot: [the crew members begin jumping out of the plane. Monroe hands Peter a parachure] This isn't going to work! Monroe: Oh, yes, it is. I'll take Amy. Dr. Peter Elliot: She might get hurt. I can't risk it! Monroe: Do you know how to fly this plane? Dr. Peter Elliot: No. Monroe: [nods toward the cockpit, where no one is at the controls] Well, the pilot and co-pilot are already gone, so what are you going to do?

Eddie: [to Karen Ross] Mr. Travis asked me to meet you at the airport, set up your expedition. Dr. Peter Elliot: HER expedition? She's just along for the ride! Eddie: Whatever, be an asshole. Dr. Peter Elliot: Who is this guy? Eddie: Eddie Ventro, transportation and equipment. But I don't supply assholes with new personalities.

Dr. Peter Elliot: Excuse me, we already hired a guide: Robertson... Eddie Ventro: Robertson Reynolds, yeah, I fired him. Dr. Peter Elliot: You what? Eddie Ventro: Robertson Reynolds is a bird-watcher. Dr. Peter Elliot: I hired Robertson Reynolds! Eddie Ventro: You would! You have any idea what's going on in the Congo as of the radio show this morning? The Kigani have had it with Zaire, AND they're eating people. You go in there with Robertson Reynolds, you'll be coming out somebody's bowel movement.